Improvement in the cohsteuction of baeeels



G. ST. GEORGE;

CONSTRUCTION OF B ARRELS.

No. 68,322. Patented Aug. 27, 1867.

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GEORGE ST. GEORGE, JR., OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent 1V0. 68,322, dated August 27, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BARRELS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, GEORGE ST. GEORGE, Jr., of the city, county, andState of New York, haveinvcnted a new and useful Improvement in theManufacture of Barrels for branding purposes; and that the followingdescription, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings,hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exact specification of thesame, wherein I have set forth the nature and principles of my saidimprovement, by which my invention may be distinguished from all othersof a similar class, together with such parts as I claim, and desire tohave secured to me. by Letters Patent.

The objectof this invention is to facilitate and expedite the removal ofthe brand marks on barrels in such a manner as to effectually preventthem from being used more than once, and at the same time being a morecertain method of marking the same; and it consists in having one of theheads or other part of the barrel constructed with raised or prominentsurfaces formed by grooves in the wood between the raised surfaces, onwhich surfaces the brand is placed or cut, and which raised'surfaces maybe readily chipped oil when it is desired to remove the brand mark, suchremoval of the brand mark being required by section thirty-eight of theact of Congress dated July 13, 1866, of which the following is a truecopy:

7 And-any person who shall fraudulently use any cask or package bearinginspection marks for the purpose of selling any other, spirits than soinsneeted, shall be imprisoned for a term of six months, or shall pay afine of one hundred dollars for each'cask or package so used, in thediscretion of the court; and any person who shall knowingly purchase orsell, with inspection marks thereon, any cask or package after the samehas been usedfor distilling spirits, or who shall fraudulently omit toerase or obliterate the inspection marks upon any such package or caskat the time of emptying the same, shall forfeit and pay the sum of twohundred dollars for every cask so purchased or used, or on which themarks are not so obliterated.

I consider one of the heads of the barrel the most desirable part of thebarrel on which to form the prominent surfaces to receive the brandmarks, and in the accompanying sheet of drawings Figure 1 represents anouter or face view of a barrel-head having two concentric annulargrooves made in it for that purpose.

Figure 2, a section of the same, taken in the line z x, fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

A represents the head ofa barrel, and b 6 two concentric annular groovesmade in it, which form raised surfaces 0 c, the former, 0, being annularand between the two grooves 12 I), and the other, 0, being within thesmaller or inner groove 6. These grooves may be made simultaneously withthe cutting out of the head during the manufacture of the barrel, and atan inappreciable expense, as the heads are cut out by machinery, andthere would be no additional labor expended in the cutting of them, theapplication of the cutters to the machine and the k coping ofthem inworking order being the only additional expense. The brand marks may bemade on either or both of the raised surfaces, and it will be seen thatthey may be cut out or erased with the greatest facility, the chipping011' of the raised surfaces being attended with no difliculty whatever.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent Constructing a barrel with raised surfaces made on thehead or heads or other suitable part thereof,'sub

stautially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

GEO. ST. GEORGE, JR.

Witnesses:

WM. F. MCNAMARA, Nansen CHASE.

